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New CSAC president Susan Ellenberg pledges child-focused, county-led approach
Summary
Susan Ellenberg, incoming president of the California State Association of Counties, told attendees in San Jose she will prioritize children's well-being, county-led prevention and unity among the state's 58 counties, and plans to visit counties throughout her year as president.
Susan Ellenberg, the incoming president of the California State Association of Counties, used her opening address in San Jose to place children's well-being at the center of her agenda and to urge a preventive, county-led approach to public services. "I will always keep children's well-being in the conversation," Ellenberg said.
Ellenberg told county supervisors and staff that counties are frontline providers of essential services — food, health care, housing, water and public safety — and that focusing on prevention could reduce long-term social and fiscal harm. She framed CSAC as a…
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